Waiting for the Great Leap Backward
Submitted by Cassiodorus on Sun, 03/22/2020 - 5:46amThe Great Leap Forward was a formative event in Chinese history, taking place between 1958 and 1962.
The Great Leap Forward was a formative event in Chinese history, taking place between 1958 and 1962.
Today I’d like to talk, perhaps for the last time, about election fraud.
[EDIT: It won't be the last time, because, try as I might, I couldn't get everything into this essay. Even though it's as long as Moby Dick.]
The past year has not been kind to that scam known as WeWork, but this takes the cake.
OK. Maybe this isn't totally unimaginable, but it is unimaginable that this is being ignored.
Last year, the Dept. of Health and Human Services ran a 7 month long exercise code named "Crimson Contagion," a dry run response to a global pandemic which started in China and expected more than 100 million Americans to become ill.
The simulation highlighted several failures in our preparedness for such a catastrophe.
~ J.R. Tolkien
Happy days.
Well, not really.
As things go from worse to worser, here's a shot, care of Bollox Minor:
Laugh?, I nearly cried.
Good luck everyone.
Wall Street wants us to think that “it feels more like a 9/11 - not 2008.”
They have two selfish reasons for this.
Firstly, it's all about "don't blame us." Because if we blame Wall Street then they won't get their taxpayer bailouts.